Shingle.



e. P. HYEPVPES.

SHINGLE.

' APPLICATION man DEC.12. 1914..

Patented Ndv. '9, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O EIoE.

GEORGE P. HEPPES, OF LA GRANGE, ILLINOIS.

SHINGLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed December 12, 1914. Serial No. 876,798.

provide integral registering means, in the formation of a shingle, on its opposite longitudinal edges, whereby to aline a series of shingles of a course as they are applied to a roof and whereby the joint between adjacent shingles is thereby made such as to provide a tortuous path for wind driven rain or snow that would otherwise find its way under the superposed course and between proximateshingles of the sub-course in ab sence of the obstruction in said path provided by my invention.

Another object of my invention, vide a double ended shingle having the recess and projections on its respective sides so that they will register with either end to permit either end or side to be laid to the weather.

Other and further objects of my inven tion will become readily apparent, to persons skilled in the art, from a consideration of the following description when taken in conjunction with the drawing wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of a fragment of a course of double end shingles as they appear on a roof showing parts of a superposed course and showing my invention incorporated in each shingle. Fig. 2 shows one of the many other forms which my invention may take, wherein a projection and depression are provided on each longitudinal s1 e.

In both'views the same reference characters are employed to indicate similar parts.

ile my invention may be used in connection with shingles and tiling generally it is especially adapted for composition shingles, such as those made of asbestos and the like and a more or less flexible asphalt shingle of which felt forms the base.

In Fig. 1, 3, 4 and 5 represent three double end shingles in a single sub-course and in their proper relative positions as they are-laid upon the roof and 6 and 7 represent shingles of the same character that is to prothe adjacent shingle in compose part of a superposed course. In the application of shingles to a roof another course would overlie the shingles 6 and 7 and so on until the roof be covered.

By making the shingles double end, one side of the shingles may be made one color or finish and the other side a'difieren-t color or finish so that alternate shingles will show the different colors or finish to lend variety to the roof.

To more clearly define the lines between visible portions of adjacent shingles in the same course, I cut away a portion of each shingle, as at -8 and 9. The aliningbottom edges of the superposed course come just below the upper edge, or the beginning of the cut away portions 8 and 9 of the sub-course.

Shingles usually have a straight longitudinal edge and in laying them in courses it is necessary to provide a guide such as a strip or a line, in order that they may be placed in proper longitudinal alinement. The straight edge joints between adjoining shingles also permit water or snow to be driven in between said shingles and under the shingle immediately above, thereby causing leaks. v.

In my improved shingle I provide one or more projections and recesses on the longitudinal edge of each shingle, such as projections 10 on one edge and a registering recess or notch 11, into which the projection accurately fits, on the other edge so that the recess or recesses of one shingle will register with the projection or projections of the same course, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

I may provide a projection and a recess or notch in the same vertical edge of each shingle, as shown in Fig. 2, or I may provide more than one projection on one edge of a given shingle and corresponding recesses on the other.

Fig. 2 shows a recess or notch and a projection oneach edge and these projections and recesses may take the form of scallops if desired, so that when the shingles are placed in a course they will invariably register in order that their bottom edges may be accurately within the same longitudinal plane. Thisarrangement of registering recesses and projections also provides a tortuous path for the wind driven rain or snow that might otherwise pass between the edges of adjacent shingles, when such edges are included in straight parallel planes,-as usual in construction of roofs with the ordinary shingles.

Other means than those shown may be employed wherein the contiguous edges of adjacent shingles are located out of single parallel, longitudinal lanes.

My invention provides a tortuous path for the driven rain and snow and prolongs the length of the path and increases the resistance to the entrance of rain or snow between adjoining shingles in a given course, and furthermore it prevents the shingles from becoming detached and dropping out of place even when the nails used to hold them in place have been withdrawn or rotted away.

While I have herein shown the preferred form of my invention and one modified form that my invention may take, it is clearly manifest that it is susceptible of further and other variations within the scope of the ap-.

pended claim.

Having described my invention, what I claim is p A shingle reversible end for end and adapted to have either side presented outwardly, said shingle having a projection extending from the longitudinal edge thereof, midway the ends, and a corresponding recess in the opposite longitudinal edge in transverse alinement with the projection, sub-- stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand. in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE P. HEPPES. In the presence of- ARTHUR W. MAY,

SAMUEL L. LOGAN. 

